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In order to get my caucus to agree. we'll see what happens in the end game there, but it is a big question mark how this will end. >> so i'm mixing apples and oranges and it all seems to run together today, but the two differences being the debt ceiling issue and then keeping the government running, and it sounds to me as though the speaker earlier has made some pretty strident comments about this should not be a conversation about shutting the government down. yet the goal is to reduce spending and protect americans from obamacare. dana, can you hold that thought. i want to bring in chief whi...

Economic proposes and policies, they're not much different than they have ever been but to tout them and renew focus on them, it hasn't helped him yet. i'm thinking that the fighting with house republicans and senate republicans, in regard to the looming budget issue and debt ceiling issue, they don't tend to help members about congress but they have also shown that they can drag down the president's approval numbers and that doesn't necessarily help him in terms of negotiating. so it is going to be a long fight. really, jon, until we get back to a case of 250,000 jobs a month, over month, ove...

Presidential leadership, that's what lamar alexander is calling the cuts. he is live now. senator, i want to ask you, gene sperling said that the president is reaching out to democrats and republicans. what is your sense of what is going on? >> well, he hasn't reached out to me. my sense is -- and mitt romney suggested it -- this is a colossal failure of presidential leadership. this is the president's sequester. in 2011, he made a deal, he wanted so badly to get through the election without a debt ceiling issue, he didn't want to touch the real problem, which is mandatory spending increases a...

Republicans passing an unconstitutional bill, while at the same time relieving the pressure on the debt ceiling was welcomed by some democrats as republicans moving from out-right crazy to half-crazy. >> i'm not sure what happened at the house republican retreat last week, but it sure had a mellowing effect on their members. maybe there were deep breathing exercises, soft jazz music. something happened. either way, we welcomed the outcome of their retreat. the bill represents a huge change on the debt ceiling issue, and hands the president his second major win in a month. and it shows that the...

That we were going to move this bill that said pass a budget or no pay. >> paul ryan wears that orange tie a lot. boehner wears that green tie quite a bit. the democrat-controlled senate has not produced a detailed budget in 1,366 days. yesterday democratic leaders said the measure is actually a victory for the president. >> i'm not sure what happened at the house republican retreat last week, but it sure had a mellowing effect on their members. maybe there were deep breathing exercises, soft jazz music. something good happened. the bill represents a huge deescalation on the debt ceiling issue...